How to make applications look better on high DPI setting

A problem I just struggled with on Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2008 on a 120 dpi setting. The problem is that Visual Studio looked really bad by default on a high DPI setting. The solution to the problem is to go to the Visual Studio shortcut and go to Properties > Compatibility andÂ check “Disable display scaling on high DPI settings” (see screenshot below). Other non-high DPI aware programs like Total Commander also suffer from the same problem.

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on April 26, 2008 at 4:37 am Gupta wrote:

Thank You. Saved lots of frustrating hours.

on November 20, 2009 at 3:25 pm Chris wrote:

Facing the same problem and tried it in Windows 7, but there was no change…

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